I just noticed Nick on BBC being interviewed for his opinion on the latest data losses, saying something to the effect that it's part of a systematic incompetence of this government. Tribal type "they're bad" politics.

I'd much prefer him to say that this is evidence of a more general problem with government as an institution, that no political party would be able to control this particular beast and that we would be looking at ways not simply of being more secure about data but at ways of dismantling some of the bureaucracy that wants to keep such data in the first place. That "government has no business holding much of this data let alone carrying it around in laptops or posting it on disks".